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Jeff Tapley is a Senior Project Manager with Hargrove Engineers + Constructors. He grew up in Mobile and graduated from John S. Shaw High school, then went on to earn bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Alabama. Jeff has been with Hargrove for 15 years. Prior to joining Hargrove, he worked in the chemical manufacturing sector for 24 years on both domestic and international assignments. Jeff also served in United States Navy in the Engineering Duty community and is the President of the Board of Directors for harGIVES, Hargrove’s volunteer organization. Jeff and his wife Susie have been married for 35 years, and together they have two children, Jeremy and Mallory. Jeff is licensed as a Professional Engineer in Alabama, Louisiana and the US Virgin Islands.

Lt Col Dave Glassman, USMC (Ret.), is a graduate of the State University of New York and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1988. He served in a variety assignments as a Naval Aviator, to include unit deployments to Okinawa, Japan; the Mediterranean Sea, and combat support operations in the Kosovo Area of Operations. He retired for Active Duty in February, 2010, and served as Director of Operations for the Center for Strategic Military Excellence (Pensacola, FL) to provide leadership and programmatic development designed to address gaps in veteran services provided by the Veterans Administration. In 2013 he Co-Founded DigiPro Media, LLC and he continues to serve the community by developing digital networks that serve small business and non-profit organizations.
Since 2009 he has served as Vice President for America’s Heroes Enjoying Recreation Outdoors (AHERO: AHEROusa.org), a non-profit organization that strives to reduce military and veteran suicide. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Veterans Memorial Park Foundation of Pensacola, a non-profit organization that is charged with the custodial care of the Park and its memorials to the men and women who have sacrificed their lives in the defense of this great nation.

“Establishing a New Catholic High School in Baldwin County.”
St. Michael Catholic High School opened in 2016 with 99 freshman and sophomores, and has added a class each year. Now a 9-12 school with 323 students, it offers students classes at the “Collegiate Studies” and “Honors/A.P.” level. Students earn 32 credits for graduation, with four years of History, Theology, Science, Math and English and a minimum of 2 years of foreign language and the Arts. The school hosts 11 varsity athletic programs competing at the 3A level, a 70-member Band program, a 150-member choral program, a Scholar’s Bowl team, a Model U.N. team, and a foreign language program that earned 56 medals on national language exams in 2019.
This is the story of St. Michael’s origins and its future plans, as told by its founding principal, Faustin Weber.
31 years as Principal, President or Headmaster of three Catholic high schools, married to Diane Weber for 33 years, with four kids and five grandchildren. Undergrad and graduate degrees from University of Notre Dame, worships at Christ the King in Daphne.

As President and lead consultant at The Net Effect, Glenda R. Snodgrass is primarily engaged in cyber security training, threat analysis and mitigation for commercial, non­profit and governmental organizations. A frequent contributor to multiple online publications, she also provides expert witness testimony in technology ­related court cases.
Currently President of Gulf Coast Industrial Security Awareness Council, Vice Chair of Mobile Chapter 117 of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS International), member of the steering committee for Gulf Coast Technology Council, and serving on the Board of Directors of the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, Ms.
Snodgrass is also an active member of InfraGard and recently graduated from the FBI Citizens’ Academy. She holds a B.A. from the University of South Alabama (1986) and a maîtrise from Université de Paris I ­ Panthéon­Sorbonne in Paris, France (1989).

Scott Speck joined the Mobile Symphony in 2000 as its first full-time music director and is now in his 19th season. Under his leadership, the orchestra has grown to become one of the central Gulf Coast’s most outstanding performing arts organizations.
A masterful conductor with a wide-ranging knowledge of repertoire, deep experience in programming, and a terrific sense of what will engage audiences – old and new. His gala performances with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell and most recently with Renee Fleming are highlights of his years as music director of the MSO. This season’s exciting lineup of concerts further illustrates the depth and breadth of his knowledge and experience.
Speck also holds positions as Music Director of the Joffrey Ballet, Chicago Philharmonic and West Michigan Symphony. He is co-author of the world’s best-selling books on classical music for a popular audience: Classical Music for Dummies, Opera for Dummies and Ballet for Dummies. He has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio, the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Voice of Russia, broadcast throughout the world.
Born in Boston, Scott Speck graduated summa cum laude from Yale University. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, where he founded Concerto Grosso Berlin, an orchestra dedicated to the performances of Baroque and Classical music in a historically informed style. He received his Master’s Degree with highest honors from the University of Southern California, served as a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen School of Music, and studied at the Tanglewood Music Center. He is fluent in English, German and French, has a diploma in Italian, speaks Spanish and has a reading knowledge of Russian.